Two music know-it-alls talk about making music in a world that already has too much music in it. This ex-husband-and-wife pair spout knowledge on all things music, including computational creativity, music production, human creativity, composition, songwriting, music business, music education, music-making culture, and machine learning/AI topics.
Alison Wilder is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer, and songwriter. Her work explores the coalescence of sound and story. Her most formative experiences include graduate studies in music theory/cognition, co-founding a music tech start-up, writing for, performing with and producing the art-rock band Voodoo Economics, and her current studio-based musical experiments as Blix Byrd.
Dr. Greg Wilder is an Eastman-trained composer, pianist, and music informatics specialist. Over the last 20 years he has co-founded a music tech startup (now part of TiVo), patented, designed, and built machine listening technologies, taught and presented lectures at numerous universities, assisted legal teams with musicological forensics, and collaborated with choreographers, filmmakers, theater directors and animators on stages across the globe.